Tag: ASHRAE
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The Great Ventilation Debate, Live at the ACI Conference
Subtitle: Joseph Lstiburek and five members of the ASHRAE 62.2 committee discussed mechanical ventilation in Detroit last week Images: …
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ASHRAE 62.2 Committee Chair Defends Ventilation Standard
Subtitle: Paul Francisco says there are good reasons not to lower ventilation rates, and that exhaust ventilation isn’t necessarily worse than supply or balanced ventilation Images: The great ventilation debate of 2013 roars on. Last month, I wrote about Building Science Corporation’s residential ventilation standard for new homes, to be released officially at Building Science…
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An Interview with Dr. Joseph Lstiburek
Subtitle: Joe explains BSC’s new ventilation standard, why tracer gas is a better measure of infiltration than blower doors, and his plans for a ventilation standard for existing homes Images: Dr. Joe Lstiburek of Building Science Corporation is on a mission. The issue is residential ventilation. He contends that the residential ventilation standard, ASHRAE 62.2A…
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Resistance May NOT Be Futile in the Residential Ventilation Wars
Subtitle: The Building Science Corporation has created a ventilation standard to compete against ASHRAE 62.2 Images: “ASHRAE 62 is the only national consensus standard document there is. Follow 62.2. Resistance is futile.” So said Dr. Max Sherman last summer in a presentation for the Building America Technical Update meeting. (Download pdf official report here.) That…
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Ventilation Requirements for Weatherized Homes
Subtitle: Is the ASHRAE 62.2 ventilation standard too complex and expensive? Images: I went to school with Cajuns in south Louisiana, and fights were a big deal. They happened frequently, and when they did, a small crowd would gather. The noise would grow quickly and soon everyone in the schoolyard would run over to where…